Belt-dressing compound.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BELT-DRESSING COMPOUND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

A lication filed February 14, 1905. Renewed April 5, 1906. Serial No. 310,142.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC N. I-IoLLINGs- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compounds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to compounds, and more particularly to a compound formed of certain specific ingredients or elements incorporated together for the production of a reliable and el'licient belt-dressing, whereby machinery-belts of all kinds when dressed with my compound will possess great efliciency or clinging power and will also be protected against wear and strain incident to the use thereof.

The main object of my invention, among others, is to provide a belt-dressing which Will render the belting entirely impervious to water and also impart thereto great clinging power, so that the belting will not casually slip off the wheels upon which it is located.

Other objects and advantages will herein-' after be made clearly apparent.

The following is the method of producing my improved compound, and the formula herewith presented is for making one gallon of the dressing. The formula is as follows: Hard engine (cylinder) oil, five and one-half pints; fish-oil, one pint neats-foot oil, one pint; pulverized rosin, one-half pound tincture asafetida, one ounce; Prussian blue, one ounce; pure pine tar, one-fourth pint.

The foregoing ingredients are commingled as follows: I first pour all of the oils and the pine tar together and thoroughly mix them by stirring until they are completely blended, I then add the rosin, asafetida, and Prussian blue, all at the same time, and stir again until all of the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed, after which I allow them to settle. After the mixture has settled I drain oil the liquid so as to leave only the sediment, and the liquid thus poured off constitutes the dressing. By the words hard engine (cylinder) oil I mean to designate oil which consists purely of animal and vegetable matter and which is reduced to the consistency of Vaseline and which is generally used within the cylinders of engines because of its thick or hard nature. The method of applying the dressing con sists of pouring a small quantity thereof on the belt while the same is in motion.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described compound consisting of five pints and one-half of hard engine (cylinder) oil, one pint of fish-oil, one pint of neats-foot oil, one-half pound of pulverized rosin, one ounce of tincture of asafetida, one ounce of Prussian blue, and one-quarter pint of pure pine tar.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC N. HOLLINGSI/VORTH.

WVitnesses:

ARTHUR LooK, C. L. BURT. 

